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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: spinetta, perhaps from Giovanni Spinetti 16th-century Italian musician who supposedly invented the instrument

spinet

 noun
     
spi‧net [countable]
1 a musical instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries, which is played like a piano
2 American English a small upright piano
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